Untouchable

"...Maskell is more than a thinly veiled Blunt..., and the book is much more than a roman clef....[It] is as much a social history and a comedy of manners as it is a novel of espionage, Jane Austen by way of Quentin Crisp and John le Carre....Victor Maskell is one of the great characters in recent fiction....The ultimate unreliable narrator, he is a brilliant and sophisticated man who devotes his life to lies and betrayals, only to realize much too late just whom he is betraying."Banville, John is the author of 'Untouchable', published 1998 under ISBN 9780679767473 and ISBN 0679767479.